I too wanted that information. I also wanted to know who did the upload. Seeing that the plugin seems to have no one maintaining it, I gamble that any changes I make to it won’t be updated and overwritten anytime soon.

Use the following at your own risk. Find and edit the following file:
plugins\nextgen-public-uploader\inc\npu-upload.php

Near the bottom of the file, find the email notification function and replace it with this:

similarly, i got two emails, about a week apart, stating there is a new image awaiting my approval, but there are no new images in my gallery. I only have twelve images in two galleries, so I’d see them if they are there. Could these two visitors have removed the images before I went in to approve them. Seems unlikely.

jallinder,
What I think the “plugin author” is suggesting is that getting the gallery name is not simple.

I (not an accomplished plug-in or WordPress coder) have hacked around enough to discover that what I think needs be done is a database query for the ‘gallerylist’ array of gallery information and then traverse the returns until a match of $gal_id is found.

I don’t have a simple modification to the patch I suggested earlier, and I have few enough galleries to manage that the number is enough for me.

I see there has been an upgrade since this post as my npu-upload.php is different than my backup from oct.2013. Can I still use this example to receive the info in the email or will the code modifications you provide be different now?